Word: sappho
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...LECTURES ON THE MODERN GERMAN DRAMA. "Grillparzers Werke I.--Ahnfran, Sappho, Das goldene Vliess, Konig Ottokar." Professor Kuehnemann. Emerson...
Percy W. Mackaye '97, whose tragedy "Sappho and Phaon" is reviewed below has attained the reputation of a dramatist and poet of no mean ability. After graduating from Harvard he studied and traveled abroad for three years. On returning to America he was engaged in teaching in New York City but since 1904 he has devoted his time almost exclusively to writing plays. He is the author of two works on "The Canterbury Tales" of Chancer, "Fonris the Wolf, a Tragedy," and "Joan d'Are," which has been produced by Mr. E. H. Sothern and Miss Marlowe in America...
...Sappho and Phaon," by Percy Wallace Mackaye '97. Manilla...
...Mackaye is not the first who has tried to dramatize this old Greek myth, poetical enough in itself to fascinate all poets. If the success of any drama is its suitability for stage presentation, then "Sappho and Phaon." as has been proved in New York, fails, but so also must the dramas of Browning and Tennyson and Swinburne be called failures. The reasons are obvious: it is too long-I think that the version given by Miss Kalisch was liberally cut down; it is too far removed from actuality; it has too little action: it is too poetical. Even...
...Sappho and Phaon," by Percy Mackaye...